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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Copper Head, post: 1508576, member: 26489&quot;]PHILADELPHIA –&nbsp; A dime made in 1873 sold for $1.6 million at auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>An anonymous bidder won the pristine coin, said Chris Napolitano, president of Stack&#039;s Bowers Galleries, which auctioned it during an American Numismatic Association convention. With a 15 percent buyer&#039;s fee tacked on, the final price for the coin was $1.84 million, he said.</p><p><br /></p><p>The rare coin was minted in Carson City, Nevada, during a one-day run of dimes.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Generally speaking, in the coin auction business, you might get a couple of people fighting each other&quot; as they bid, he said Friday. &quot;On this one, we had four or five buyers over a million dollars. We had a fair amount of buyers pursuing it.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/10/1873-dime-sells-for-16-million-at-philadelphia-auction/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/10/1873-dime-sells-for-16-million-at-philadelphia-auction/" rel="nofollow">Story here</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I came in a little low on this one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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